D Burraston – 28-05-2011
This is a brief post of an experimental recording of rainfall on the newly constructed Flying V wires  (43 minute excerpt – 24-4-2010).
 
Flying-V-eastwest-24-4-10-5pm-onwards-fishmans-RAIN by RAINWIRE

Waterproofing the recording gear…
Please see the previous Rainwire …

D Burraston – 25-02-2011
The Rainwire project forms part of an art/science initiative to investigate environmental sonification of land based natural rainfall using large-scale long wire instruments.
Feb 16th – Test rainfall sonification recording of newly installed pickups on …

Rainfall sonification recording of a NSW storm (8/12/2010) : A brief research report for the Rainwire project
D Burraston  
***NOV 2011 UPDATE***
Two Rainwire research papers have been accepted for publication:
Burraston, D. (2012) ‘Rainwire: Environmental Sonification of …

WIRED Lab – Bioaeolian I (2008)

The tapping/clicking sounds appear sparsely throughout the recording, very slight sounds, listen closely to hear them. The bioacoustic sounds are very similar to rustling and crackling, and also have …

Some images of experimental electromagnetic pickups and their placement. A mixed of bag of objects : pulse relays, transformers, ancient telephone mic & earpieces, disk drive rare earth magnets, tapeheads…

Many of the electromagnetic components shown …

Some images of the guitar pickups and their placement during an experimental recording session in August 2008. Note that in many of these experiments the pickups were positioned along the wire, which is a different …

The wires themselves are multifaceted and the often discussed aeolian tones are one of many interesting aspects. The Wires are also nature’s microphone, a true environmental sonification. Much animal life intereacts with them e.g. insects …

Lamb has been working with the wires for the past 30 years. During this time he developed a low cost technique of attaching ‘piezo’ stereo contact microphones (pickups) to make field recordings and listen to The …